There are fine specimens of the great seals also of Henry III., and of his sons Edward I.and Edmund Crouchback, and of the Tudor sovereigns, as well as many private seals of great interest.

The wax of the early seals was obviously stronger and better than the wax since used.

Of Elizabeth, who came of the Butler blood through her mother, one large seal in yellow wax, attached to a charter dated Oct.

24, 1565, is remarkable for the beauty of the die.

The Queen sits on the obverse under a canopy; on the reverse she rides in state on a pacing steed as in her effigy at the Tower of London.